The comments by readers are better than the article itself.


"U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano toured the Mexico border Monday to trumpet increased enforcement as she campaigned for an overhaul of immigration laws.

The former Arizona governor highlighted "incredible" spending on border enforcement, 40-year lows in "illegal immigration numbers" and relatively low violent crime rates in major border cities like San Diego and El Paso, Texas.

"What we have seen now compared to 20 years ago is like the difference between a rocket ship and a horse and buggy," Napolitano said at a news conference after a helicopter tour."


http://washington.cbslocal.com/2013/02/05/napolitano-the-borders-a-safe-border/

These people are not stupid, they just lie.

If she is talking about the Canadian boarder...I often have wondered why it is so much more difficult to cross the northern boarder than the southern.

Spending money is not the equivalent of more secure.  I think the GOP really needs to have a concrete plan as to what a secure border would look like.  So that there can be no discussion as to when a secure border has been achieved.  I personally think that nothing will totally secure the border.  Take a look at East Berlin where they actually were keeping people in but people still found a way to get out.   They were few and far between but the GOP cannot get into a discussion that the border would be 100% secure then.

When the definition is all judgement and words well the Obama admin have zero attachment to the truth. When the GOP gets into a war of opinion the MSM insures that they do not have a chance of winning.

I wonder if there are the Mexican cartels  still have  bounties out for American Sheriff's in Arizona's "safe" border state.